Great Belt
E198498
The Great Belt is a major strait in Denmark that separates the islands of Funen and Zealand and connects the Baltic Sea to the Kattegat.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Belt canonical | 42 |
| Storebælt | 4 |
| Great Belt strait | 2 |
| Great Belt East Channel | 1 |
| Great Belt Strait | 1 |
| Great Belt West Channel | 1 |
| Great Belt shipping lane | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1575433 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Belt Context triple: [Funen, surroundedByStrait, Great Belt]
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A.
Øresund
Øresund is the strait between Denmark and Sweden that connects the Baltic Sea to the North Sea and is spanned by the Øresund Bridge.
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B.
Kattegat
Kattegat is a shallow sea area and strait between Denmark and Sweden that forms a key maritime passage linking the North Sea with the Baltic Sea.
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C.
Eastern Scheldt
Eastern Scheldt is a large tidal estuary in the Dutch province of Zeeland, known for its rich marine ecosystem and the Delta Works storm surge barrier that protects it from the North Sea.
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D.
Western Scheldt
The Western Scheldt is the estuarine mouth of the Scheldt River in the southwestern Netherlands, forming a key shipping route to the port of Antwerp and a major waterway in the province of Zeeland.
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E.
Skagerrak
Skagerrak is a strait and sea area between Norway, Denmark, and Sweden that connects the North Sea to the Baltic Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Belt Target entity description: The Great Belt is a major strait in Denmark that separates the islands of Funen and Zealand and connects the Baltic Sea to the Kattegat.
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A.
Øresund
Øresund is the strait between Denmark and Sweden that connects the Baltic Sea to the North Sea and is spanned by the Øresund Bridge.
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B.
Kattegat
Kattegat is a shallow sea area and strait between Denmark and Sweden that forms a key maritime passage linking the North Sea with the Baltic Sea.
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C.
Eastern Scheldt
Eastern Scheldt is a large tidal estuary in the Dutch province of Zeeland, known for its rich marine ecosystem and the Delta Works storm surge barrier that protects it from the North Sea.
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D.
Western Scheldt
The Western Scheldt is the estuarine mouth of the Scheldt River in the southwestern Netherlands, forming a key shipping route to the port of Antwerp and a major waterway in the province of Zeeland.
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E.
Skagerrak
Skagerrak is a strait and sea area between Norway, Denmark, and Sweden that connects the North Sea to the Baltic Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of water
ⓘ
strait ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
island of Funen
ⓘ
linked to:
Funen
island of Zealand ⓘ |
| connects |
Baltic Sea
ⓘ
Kattegat ⓘ North Sea basin via Kattegat ⓘ |
| country | Denmark ⓘ |
| DanishName |
Storebælt
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Belt
|
| hasBridge | Great Belt Bridge ⓘ |
| hasCrossing |
Great Belt Fixed Link
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Belt Tunnel
|
| hasNavigationRole | main deep-water route into Baltic Sea ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Great Belt East Channel
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Belt
Great Belt West Channel ⓘ
linked to:
Great Belt
|
| hasSection |
East Bridge
ⓘ
Great Belt Tunnel ⓘ West Bridge ⓘ |
| hasStrategicImportance | shipping route between Baltic Sea and North Sea ⓘ |
| isInTerritorialWatersOf | Denmark ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Danish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baltic Sea region
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltic Sea coastal states
Northern Europe ⓘ Scandinavia ⓘ |
| partOf | Danish straits ⓘ |
| separates |
Funen
ⓘ
Zealand ⓘ |
| usedFor |
international shipping
ⓘ
maritime transport ⓘ |
| waterwayType | sea strait ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Great Belt Description of subject: The Great Belt is a major strait in Denmark that separates the islands of Funen and Zealand and connects the Baltic Sea to the Kattegat.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Great Belt
linked to: Great Belt
linked to: Great Belt
linked to: Great Belt
linked to: Great Belt
linked to: Great Belt
linked to: Great Belt
subject linked to:
island of Zealand